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Patent GB-190819033-A (GB)
Title: Road Sprinkling Apparatus.
Inventor: SUNDBY JENS
Filed: 1908-09-10
Granted: 1908-11-26
Abstract: 19,033. Sundby, J. Sept. 10. Liquids, distributing. -A vehicle carrying a tank is provided with a sprinkling-head having a discharge slot, and with means for varying the length and width of this slot. Fig. 1 shows the vehicle with the tank 18 and spraying-head 1 fixed thereto. Fig. 3 shows a sectional view of the spraying-head 1. This head is provided with a supply pipe 4, a cover 2, and an internal sleeve 6. A part of this sleeve is cut away and forms an adjustable sliding-piece 8, the position of which is controlled by the screw rotated by the chain-wheel 19 so as to regulate the width of the s'ot 5. The chain-wheel may be operated from either end of the car through the medium of chains and sprocketwheels. The length of the slot 5 may be regulated by means of two sliding plates 27 having inclined sides 27<1>. The plates are operated by rods 29 actuated by pivoted levers 33, which are themselves actuated by ropes 34 actuated to pedals 35. If two sprinkling-heads are used, only one plate 27 is needed in each bead.
Patent GB-190819510-A (GB)
Title: Improved Method of Resiliently Suspending Vehicles.
Inventor: HEUSCH EDOUARD
Filed: 1908-09-16
Granted: 1909-07-29
Abstract: 19,510. Heusch, E., and Letellier, A. Sept. 16. Motor road vehicles.-To obviate the use of pneumatic tyres on vehicle wheels, small non-rotary pneumatic wheels,'arranged in front of and behind the axle, are interposed between the vehicle frame and axle, the centres of the wheels being secured to the frame or axle, and their peripheries resting on supports carried by the axle or frame respectively. Fig. 2 shows two pneumatic wheels 5 connected at their centres to a frame 8 and resting on a plate 4 guided by rods 10 or other guiding-arrangement on the frame 8 and supported on the axle 1. The rods 10 may be connected to the plate 4 by springs permitting horizontal movement, or by other pneumatic-tyred wheels having their axes on the rods 10. The wheels 5 may be elliptical. A modification is described in which the plate 4 is supported by semi-elliptic springs on the axle 1. The connexions between the wheels 5 and the frame and axle may be inverted. Fig. 4 shows a vehicle body connected by springs 13 to a false axle 14, which has arms supporting the spindles of pairs of pneumatic wheels 5, which rest on concave surfaces 4 on beams 16 suspended from the axle 1. The beams 16 are pivoted to their suspending-links 17 so as to distribute the load on the wheels 5, and the links 17 are pivoted to the axle 1 so as to allow lateral tilting of the axle. The axle is guided by blocks 21 sliding in guides 20 fixed to the springs 13. Modifications are described in which the wheels 5 are carried by a segmental arm secured to a spring on the frame and rest either on a beam 16 as shown in Fig. 4 or on a convex cylindrical surface carried by the axle, or they are carried on arms on the axle and contact with beams rigidly or resiliently connected to the frame. The two halves of each beam and segmental support may be resiliently connected together. The axle may be guided relatively to the frame by means of a slotted guide or by the jointed parallelogram shown in Fig. 11. Three or four pneumatic wheels may be used at each bearing-wheel.
Patent GB-190820458-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Library and other Indicators.
Inventor: MACONOCHIE RICHARDSON
Filed: 1908-09-29
Granted: 1909-09-16
Abstract: 20,458. Maconochie, R. Sept. 29. Indicators, library.-Issue and return indicators for libraries, breweries, &c. are built up of the required number of column elements composed of interchangeable sheet-metal parts. In Figs. 1 and 6 the open-ended compartments which receive the indicator slides, are horizontal, and are formed by uprights b, b<1> having slits to receive tongues c<1> formed on plates c, the tongues being turned over to brace the uprights together. In a modification of this form the compartments are inclined Figs. 13 and 14 show in sectional elevation and plan one and a half column elements of another form in which the uprights h are of wide trough section fitting into one another, broad tongues i being stamped out therefrom to form ledges for the indicator slides. The two parts of a column may be secured together by tongues and slits. Fig. 17 shows in sectional plan one column of an adjustable indicator in which additional numbers can be inserted at any point by raising the slides above that point, there being no separate compartments. The uprights are formed of two lengths of wide channel section fitting together as shown. The slides are preferably of two unconnected parts i<4>, i<5> each comprising a channel - sectioned stem i<6>, between which the loose indicator slip i<3> is placed, with the front ends turned at right-angles and bearing suitable symbols. The metal of the indicator slide may be strengthened at k by being ribbed. To apply the symbols to the metallic partitions or slides &c. of the various forms of indicator, tongues or flanges which are cut out from or are extensions of the metal, are turned over small panels of cardboard, wood, &c., on which the signs have been produced. Fig. 22 shows a skeleton sheath into which the panel m is slid, and then held by turning over the remaining edge or tongue n'.
Patent GB-190821566-A (GB)
Title: Condensation Product and Method of Making same.
Inventor: BAEKELAND LEO HENDRICK
Filed: 1908-10-12
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 21,566. Baekeland, L. H. Oct. 15, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Phenol-aldehyde condensation products.-Condensation products are obtained by heating phenols with aldehydes, in particular formaldehyde, in the presence of basic substances. Suitable basic substances are ammonia, ammonium carbonate, barium, strontium or calcium hydroxide, amines such as aniline or pyridine, amides of weak acids such as carbamide, alkali sulphides, cyanides, or sulphites, trisodium phosphate, borax, soaps, &c. Alkali acetates may also be used. The first product of condensation is an oily mass, soluble in alcohol, acetone, &c. ; these solutions are applicable as varnishes. Further heating gives a semi-solid or solid product soluble in alcohol or alcohol and acetone ; still further heating, preferably under pressure, gives a hard solid insoluble in alcohol &c. and practically unattacked by acids, alkalis, &c.
Patent GB-190825758-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Trolley Head for Electric Cars.
Inventor: BAYLEY CHARLES SPENCER
Filed: 1908-11-28
Granted: 1909-08-26
Abstract: 25,758. Bayley, C. S. Nov. 28. Electric traction on the overhead - conductor system. Collectors.-The trolly harp f is mounted on an auxiliary arm c, pivoted at k to the trolly-pole bracket a, so that if struck by any part of the overhead gear it can turn over and thus avoid entanglement. The base of the arm c is formed with a curved surface or guard m which allows the arm, when inverted, to slide freely beneath the conductors. The arm is held in its correct position by a wedge-shaped projection h, and a stop o limits its backward movement.
Patent GB-190825864-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hoisting Machinery and the like
Inventor: PETCH ALBANY FRANCIS
Filed: 1908-11-30
Granted: 1909-11-25
Abstract: 25,864. Petch, A. F. Nov. 30. Delivery, regulating.-The delivery of a pump forming part of an hydraulic power. transmission system is varied by connecting the delivery and suction sides. The Figure shows a cress-section of the mid-plate which separates the pump and the motor. The two ports B, C are connected by passages b, c to a valve chamber D containing a spring-loaded valve E acting as a by-pass. The tension of the spring may be adjusted by a screwed flange d, while the valve is opened or closed and its lift regulated by the handle J.
Patent GB-190826060-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ship's Steering Apparatus.
Inventor: PETCH ALBANY FRANCIS
IPC: B63H25/30
Filed: 1908-12-03
Granted: 1909-11-18
Abstract: 26,060. Petch, A. F. Dec. 3. Steering-gear. -In steering-apparatus operated by a constant-speed electric or other motor, a rotary variable-speed hydraulic transmission device, which may be of the kind described in Specification No. 13,894, A.D. 1907, [Abridgment Class Hydraulic machinery &c.], is arranged between the motor and the steering-gear and is controlled by hunting-gear. The shaft A of the constant-speed motor is connected to the pump end of the transmission device, and the rotary shaft B, operating the steering-gear, is connected to its motor end. The tilting-box A<1> carries a nut A' through which passes the rod C, capable of sliding and connected at one end by bevel-gear to the steering-wheel shaft F, and at the other end by a thrust-block M to the screw-shaft G, which is connected by the sour-wheel H and the pinion K to the shaft B. On moving the steering-wheel to its full extent in one direction, by the time the rudder has been moved to its fall angle. the pinion K, the gearwheel and the screw will have caused the longitudinally-sliding rod to have brought the box A' to its vertical position and thus stop the motor end of the transmitter.
Patent GB-190826951-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Point and Switch Indicators for Railways.
Inventor: WOLFSGRUBER GUSTAV
Filed: 1908-12-11
Granted: 1909-10-28
Abstract: 26,951. Wolfsgruber, G., and Hollitzer, F. Dec. 11. Semaphore &c. signals.-Four pairs of signal arms are arranged in a casing and connected to a point or switch actuating mechanism in such a manner that they can be adjusted to produce collectively a number of signals, which indicate w h i c h particular line is open. The signal arms are contained in a casing 1, placed at right-angles to the track and having glazed apertures at both sides, through which show four pairs of signal arms, two pairs 2, 3 and 4, 5 showing through the front aperture, and two pairs connected with these showing through the back. Behind the arms are placed frosted glass plates forming a lamp chamber to render the arms visible at night. The arms are pivoted at points 10 and are interconnected by levers 16, 17, and links 18 so that each pair works together. The pair 2, 3, and the back pair connected thereto, are operated by a lever 11 and a rod 12, the arms being guided by pins 13 working in slots 14 in the casing walls. The pair is so mounted that the two rods either take up the position shown, forming an angle of 30 degrees, or lie vertically alongside one another as shown for the pair 4, 5, which, with the back pair connected thereto, is similarly operated from a separate rod 28, Fig. 3. Four signals may thus be given by different combinations of the arms in different positions, so signifying which line is open. The lever 11 is operated from the point-coupling rod 23 by a pair of three-armed levers 19, 22 connected by wires 21, the arm 20 of the lever 19 co-operating with the forked lower end of the lever 11, while the arm 25 of the other lever 22 co-operates with projections 24 on the coupling-rod, which projections may be made adjustable to render the apparatus independent of the amplitude of movement of the rod. The lever 28 is similarly operated from the coupling-rod of the points for its particular road. The levers 11, 28 may be counter-weighted to cause the arm to assume an intermediate angular position should the point-rail become displaced, and in this case adjustable abutments may be carried by a forked arm of the lever 19 to co-operate with the lever 11. In case of a single point, the connecting- rod and the actuating-mecnanism may be directly connected with the lower end of the lever 11.
Patent GB-190827225-A (GB)
Title: Improved Means for Rendering Fabrics and other Goods and Articles Non-flammable.
Inventor: LEVENE SAMUEL
Filed: 1908-12-15
Granted: 1909-12-15
Abstract: 27,225. Levene, S., and Harris, S. M. Dec. 15. Fire-proof compositions.-A solution for rendering fabrics and other articles non-inflammable is prepared by dissolving 16 oz. of ammonium chloride and 8 oz. of ammonium sulphate in 8 pints of water at 60‹ F. One or more of the following ingredients may also be added : talc “ oz., alum 3 oz., and borax “ oz.
Patent GB-190905711-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in the Construction of Fences.
Inventor: BRANDT WILHELM
IPC: E04H17/14
Filed: 1909-03-09
Granted: 1909-10-21
Abstract: 5711. Brandt, W. March 9. Rail and vertical-bar fencing.-In fencing in which the uprights are traversed by the horizontals, lateral movement of the uprights is prevented by forming, on erection, protuberances c on the horizontals, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.
Patent GB-190910934-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Prepayment Apparatus for the Supply of Gas, Electricity, or the like.
Inventor: HANSFORD JOHN
IPC: G07F15/04
Filed: 1909-05-08
Granted: 1910-08-08
Abstract: 10,934. Hansford, J., and Wright, J. F. May 8. Electricity a n d gas, supplying by meter.-Relates to a prepayment attachment for a gas or electricity meter controlled by a clock. When the operating- spindle is rotated, the inserted coin effects the engagement of a clutch, so that further rotation of the spindle winds the driving-spring of the clock and rotates a timing- disk controlling a switch or valve. After prepayment, the coin carrier a is rotated, thereby rocking a lever c pivoted t o the framework at c' and shifting a wheel d o n a spindle of the clock into engagement with a wheel d' on the coin carrier, so that the further rotation of the carrier winds the driving - spring. Simultaneously, a ratchet clutch e and wheel f geared to the clock are unclutched from a ratchet clutch e<1>, thereby enabling a ratchet-wheel g<2> and switch disk g to be set forward by a pawl i<2>, the contact brushes k passing from the insulator g<3> to the metal surface of the disk and closing the consumer's circuit. The pawl i<3>, pivoted to a spring-controlled rod i, is normally held up by a stopj, but, during the rotation of the carrier, a pin h on the wheel d retraets the rod i by engagement with an adjustable nut i<1>, the pawl moving-off the stop and being forced into engagement with the ratchet-wheel by a pivoted weight j<1>. At the completion. of the rotation of the carrier, the lever c returns to the normal position, unclutching the ratchets d, d' and again clutching the ratchets e, e<1>, so that as the mainspring unwinds, the disk g is gradually returned to break the consumer's circuit. In the case of a gas-meter, the insulated portion g<3> is replaced by a cam-slot into which a lever connected to the valve is drawn to cut off the supply. Fig. 5 shows the preferred form of escapement for use with the clock-work mechanism, such a form enabling the mechanism to start as soon as the torque is applied to the escapement-wheel spindle. The triangular disk p may however be replaced by any polygonal disk having an uneven number of angles. Coin action, mechanical-connexion.-The coin b projecting from the carrier a engages an arm c' of the lever c.
Patent GB-190911539-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Rectifying Apparatus for Electric Currents.
IPC: H01J13/50
Filed: 1909-05-15
Granted: 1910-05-12
Abstract: 11,539. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. May 15. Packing, non-metallic.-A valve spindle 80 has asbestos packing to which oil is supplied from an annular channel 81. The valve connects an exhausting-appliance to a pump.
Patent GB-190913908-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with Means for Giving an Initial Impulse to Magneto-electric Sparking Machines used in connection with Internal Combustion Engines.
Inventor: BRAUD GEORGES
IPC: F02P15/12
Filed: 1909-06-14
Granted: 1910-03-17
Abstract: 13,908. Braud, G. June 14. Dynamos, driving.-A coupling - device, for giving an initial impulse to ignition magnetos, consists of members mounted respectively on the driving and magneto shafts and interconnected by a spring so that the magneto shaft may be partly rotated and released under the action of the spring. Fixed on the driving-shaft c, Fig. 3, is a disk d, which closes the end of a drum a secured to the magneto shaft b by a boss a<1>, Fig. 5, which shows the apparatus with the disk d removed. The boss d', gripping the shaft c and loosely surrounded by an antifriction ring d<3>, is part of the disk d, which is also provided with a semicircular flange d<2> loosely fitting the inner periphery of the drum a. On the outside of the latter are ratchet teeth h engaged by a spring-pressed pawl n carried by a ring i loosely mounted on the drum a. This ring is connected by flexible or other means attached to the lug in, to a lever, by which ,it may be rotated to the position shown dotted, thus extending the spring f, the ends of which are attached to the drum and disk. The horn n<1> then impinges against a fixed tappet, which releases the pawl and allows the drum to fly back and become locked with the disk d by the rounded stud g', fixed on a spring g carried by the drum, engaging a hole d<4> in the flange d<2>. The stud g<1> and hole d<4> may be permanently engaged by a cam r, which is turned by an external lever.
Patent GB-190915849-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Boxes and the like.
Inventor: BURRAGE DONALD FERGUSON
IPC: B65D5/68
Filed: 1909-07-07
Granted: 1910-05-05
Abstract: 15,849. Burrage, D. F. July 7. Double hinges; pivot pins.-The loose lid of a biscuit or other box b is connected to the body by a pair of links a placed on opposite sides of the box and pivotally connected at their ends d to the respective parts. The links may be of flat material, or of wire, and if of flat material may be secured to the part by a bolt-and-nut fastening, or a bifurcated rivet may be employed for securing the links to the lid, a spring fastener giving a detachable connexion, being used for attaching them to the body.
Patent GB-190916285-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and connected with or applicable to Dye-jigs, Cisterns, Tanks, Vats, and such like Apparatus used by Dyers, Bleachers, Calico Printers, and the like.
Inventor: BRIERLEY JOHN
IPC: D06B23/02
Filed: 1909-07-13
Granted: 1910-02-17
Abstract: 16,285. Brierley, J., and Melling, S. July 13. Circulating or passing materials through vats and the like; jigger type.-A combined roller, heater, and circulator for use in jigger and other bleaching, dyeing, and like apparatus consists of a shell, built-up on end carriers revolving on gudgeons, provided with circulating passageways or openings, and an internal heating- device, such as a steam pipe or coil with means for supporting it. The roller proper rotates on hollow gudgeons a, a<1>, and consists of cast metal ends b, with gaps b<1> cut in the edges, and bars or cloth rails c, preferably trough-shaped and made of copper, which are bolted, with their hollow sides drawn over the projections b<2> between the gaps. One or more holes may be cut in the rails c to assist circulation or drainage. The periphery may be made in two halves c', Fig. 8, or in the form of a number of shell pieces. The shell pieces c<2> are perforated so that the liquor circulates, through them as well as through the gaps b<1>. The steam-pipe is either a cranked perforated one f, Fig. 2, or is a coil f<2>, Fig. 6, steam being supplied in either case through the hollow gudgeons a and passed away, in the second case, through the second gudgeon a'. The pipe is supported by a cranked or ribbed bearer g, g<1> respectively, being curved in the first case to serve as a guard over the steam outlets, Fig. 2.
Patent GB-190917791-A (GB)
Title: Improvements appertaining to Bedsteads and which are also applicable for other purposes.
Inventor: WHITFIELD GILBERT
IPC: F16B12/60
Filed: 1909-07-31
Granted: 1910-07-28
Abstract: 17,791. Whitfield, G. July 31. Frames, joints, and connexions.-A connexion between metalwork and woodwork in bedsteads and other articles is effected by means which move the metalwork in the process of tightening in a direction transverse to the axis of the tightening-screw. The metal socket in which the bed bottom is supported is made integral with a plate A, Fig. 2, provided with lugs a<1> having lateral tapering holes a<2>. The holes c in the bed-posts are disposed horizontally in a direction at right angles to the length of the bedstead and are preferably out of centre to the holes a<2>. The screws are preferably of the construction shown in Fig. 2, the tapering part f<1> engaging with the tapering hole a<2>, in the lug a'. If ordinary screws are used, they may be provided with a metal bush shaped as shown in Fig. 5.
Patent GB-190918776-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or connected with the Lubrication of Loose Pulleys, Sheaves or Blocks and Shafts.
Inventor: BOND THOMAS SEED
IPC: F16N9/02
Filed: 1909-08-16
Granted: 1910-06-09
Abstract: 18,776. Bond, T. S. Aug. 16. By solid lubricant. Loose pulleys, sheave and other pulleys, wheels, and shaft bearings are lubricated by solidified lubricant. The pulley 1, formed with an annular chamber 3 to contain t h e lubricant, runs on a bush 6 fixed to the shaft or axle 5. Pins 7 projecting from the bush whisk or agitate the lubricant when the pulley rotates. When the bush is knocked out of the pulley, the pins 7 are sheared by the inner edge 10 of the chamber 3. When applied to the bearing of a rotating shaft, the chamber 3 is formed in the bearing and the pins 7 are fixed to the shaft itself, or a bush made in two parts may be fixed to the shaft, the connecting-lugs on the bush taking the place of the pins.
Patent GB-190922764-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Indicating and Recording Apparatus for Electric Pyrometers and the like.
Inventor: ARMOUR WILLIAM
IPC: G01K1/02
Filed: 1909-10-06
Granted: 1910-10-06
Abstract: 22,764. Armour, W. Oct. 6. Recording - apparatus for electric pyrometers and the like, of the type described in Specifications 1906/06 and 2926/07, [Class 97, Philosophical instruments], is arranged so that the maximum and minimum temperatures of several furnaces may be recorded simultaneously on one recording-drum, and an alarm bell sounded when the temperature rises or falls to one or other of the limits. The multiple recorder shown in the diagram above the line X-X may be located in the manager's room, the pointers or markers (not shown) being actuated as described in Specification 1906/06, when either of the magnets 7, 8 is energized. The meter-boards with their indicators are arranged in convenient positions close to the furnaces, one to each furnace, and have terminals z for connexion to the thermo-electric couple or pyrometer. Wiring-arrangements as shown connect the meter-boards to the recorder. The clock contact g actuates the.contacts h, k which are similar to those shown in Fig. 6 of Specification 2926/07, and the coils Y correspond to those shown at Y in this last-mentioned Specification.
Patent GB-190925746-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Holders for Feeding Bottles for Infants, Invalids and others.
Inventor: WATTS ERNEST ASHBY
IPC: A61J9/06
Filed: 1909-11-08
Granted: 1910-08-25
Abstract: 25,746. Watts, E. A. Nov. 8. Bottles, holders for.-A feeding-bottle is held in a wire clip a, b, pivoted to an adjustable slide c on a rod h attached to a frame provided with clips f to fit on a cot rail x. A cross-bar -g is added at the base of the frame to carry the lower end of the rod h.
Patent GB-190929380-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Travelling-trunks.
Inventor: WOOD WILLIAM HOWARD
IPC: A45C5/04
Filed: 1909-12-15
Granted: 1910-09-22
Abstract: 29,380. Wood, W. H. Dec. 15. Ends; battens, strengthening. - Travelling- trunks are made with ends a having a foundation of wood, and with bodies of compressed fibre &c., the lids being similarly made. Strengthening-hoops e, j are fitted transversely round the body at its ends and in intermediate positions, and strengthening-strips c, d, i, h are fitted to the front and back edges.